Research projects by discipline
Interdisciplinary
- AFRASO – Africa's Asian Options (Inter-centre programme ZIAF - IZO): African Lingustics, English Studies, Anthropology, Geography, Political Science, Economic Science
- Research Training Group (GRK 1576) - Value and Equivalence The genesis and transformation of values from an archaeological and ethnological perspective: Archaeologie, Anthropology
African Linguistics
- Akie in Tanzania - documenting a critically endangered language. DoBeS Project of the Volkswagen Foundation)
- Multimedia documentation of the Oyda language (Ethiopia), DoBeS of the Volkswagen Foundation)
Anthropology
- Research Training Group (GRK 1576) - Value and Equivalence The genesis and transformation of values from an archaeological and ethnological perspective
- Western Norms and Local Media in Africa. Project 11 in the Cluster of Excellence 243 „Normative Orders“ (DFG)
Archaeology and Archaeobotany
- DFG Long Term Project - Development of complex societies in sub-Saharan Africa: The Nigerian NOK culture
- Research Training Group (GRK 1576) - Value and Equivalence The genesis and transformation of values from an archaeological and ethnological perspective
Biology
- African Plant Initiative (API)
- Africa related projects in the Biodiversity and Climate Research centre Bik-F
- Responses of Herbaceous Savanna Vegetation to Land Use and Habitat Conditions: Investigations along a Climatic Gradient in West Africa (DFG-Project)
- UNDESERT - Understanding and combating desertification to mitigate its impact on ecosystem services (EU-Project)
Geography
- The New Global Agricultural Market and Its Fuzzy Frontiers: Forms and Consequences of the Integration of Ghanaian Farmers into Transnational Production Networks
- EuroGaps: External Relations and External Perceptions of the EU in sub-Saharan Africa and the Black Sea Region
- Global Micro in the Making: The Marketization of Weather Index Insurance for Agriculture in Ghana (DFG Priority Programme 1448)